Awning-frame



(No Model.)

H. J. KELLOGG. AWNING FRAME.

No. 495.113. Patented Apr. 11, 1893.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY J. KELLOGG, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

AWNING-FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 495,113, dated April11, 1893.

Application filed October 15,1892.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY J. KELLOGG, of New Haven, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have. invented a new Improvement inAwning-Frames; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be afull, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in

Figure 1, a plan or top view of the frame; Fig. 2, a frontview of thesame; Fig. 3, a plan of one side piece A, detached; Fig. 4, a plan ofthe other side piece 13, detached; Fig. 5, a plan of one part of thefront connecting bar detached; Fig. 6, a plan of the other part of thefront connecting bar detached; Fig. 7, a diagram illustrating theoperation of the invention. Fig. 8, represents the frame folded; Fig. 9,a modification of the invention.

This invention relates to an improvement in frames for awnings forwindows, and in which the frame is composed of two sides adapted foradjustable attachment to the window jamb, and extending outward, the twosides connected across the front, and so that the top of the awning maybe secured to the front bar, and the sides of the awning to the sidebars, the object of the invention being the construction of such a frameso that it may be readily adjusted to window or door openings, ofvarying widths, but so that the front portion of the frame will alwaysattain a central position with relation to its sides, that is to say, sothat throwing the two sides apart, or drawing them together, themovement of the two must necessarily be uniform, or, in other words, sothatif one side be thrown outward or drawn inward, the other side mustbe correspondingly thrown out or drawn inward, and the inventionconsists in the construction as hereinafter described, and particularlyrecited in the claims.

A, represents one side-piece of the frame, and B, the other side piece.At their inner ends these pieces are constructed with an eye 0, by whichthe sides may be supported upon the usual vertical rods, and so as to beadjust-able thereon, or with any suitable connection whereby they may besecured to the jambs of the opening to which the awning is Serial No.448,965. (No model.)

to be applied, and so thatthe side-pieces may be raised into a verticalposition when the awning is drawn upward, or turned down in a horizontalposition for the dropping of the awning, and as usual in this class ofawningframes. The front bar of the awning is composed of two parts D andE, see Figs. 5 and 6. These parts are preferably curved at one end, asshown, and the side pieces at their outer end are curved accordingly.The side-piece A, is jointed by one end to the extreme end of the partD, of the front bar, as at F, but

this joint is distant from the extreme end of the side piece. The otherend of the part D, is jointed to the extreme end of the other side pieceB, as at G. The other part E, of the front bar is jointed by one end tothe side piece B, as at H, but at a point distant from the extreme endof the side piece B,the same as the connection between the part D, andthe side-piece A, and the, other end of the part E, is jointed to theother side piece A, at its extreme end, as at I, the parts D and E beingarranged the one above the other, and preferably with the side-piecesbetween them, as shown.

The method shown and described of hinging the two parts D, and E of thefront bar to the side pieces, causes them to serve as connectionsbetween the two side-pieces, so that the movement of one of theside-pieces will be, through the said parts of the front bar,communicated to the other side piece, but in opposite directions.

An illustration of this operation is represented in the diagram Fig. 7,in which the same letters indicate corresponding parts, but'the parts Dand E, are there represented as in straight lines crossing each other,the points of connection or hinging between the parts being the same. Asrepresented in solid lines in this diagram Fig. 7, the sidepieces A B,are parallel with each other, and as seen in Fig. 1. Now if one of theside pieces A, be thrown outward, as represented in broken lines, theparts D and E of the connecting or front bar through their hingedconnections, communicate the movement of the side pieces A, to theopposite side piece B, causing that to be thrown outward in like manner.A reverse movement of one of the side pieces will produce a like reversemovement of the other. The result of this is that the two side pieceswill always stand in the same relation to the front bar. The two partsof the front bar arranged so that their lines of force cross each otheras represented in the diagram Fig. 7, causes them to operate as bracesbetween the two side bars, to prevent lateral swinging movement of theframe, which would not be the case if they were both hinged at a singlejoint to the same connecting bar at the front. The frame is thereforesubstantially as strong, so far as lateral strain upon the frame isconcerned, as if it were made in a continuous piece, and the front barof a width corresponding to the width of the opening, and as in the moregeneral construction of this class of awning frames where the sidepieces and the front bar are made integral. The ends of the sidepiecesand connecting ends of the parts of the front bar are curved, so as tobring them one substantially over the other, that they may occupy thesame pocket in the awning, or less space than would be required werethey straight, as represented in the diagram Fig. 7. This constructionpermits the frame to be folded, as seen in Fig. 8, convenient forstorage or transportation, and the construction permits the productionof the awning frames as an article of manufacture, irrespective of thewidth of the opening to which they are to be applied, the frames beingreadily adjustable to various widths of opening.

While preferring to make the connection by the two parts as described,and curving the ends so as to cause the two bars to lie the one over theother, the connections between the two sides may be straight, asrepresented in the diagram Fig. 7, with a telescopic rod connecting theextreme ends of the side pieces, as seen in Fig. 9. The result of thisconstruction will be the same as that firstdescribed, so far as theequal or like adjustment of the two sides with relation to the front baris concerned,or the parts of thefront bar may be straight without suchtelescopic bar connection across the front, and accomplish a goodresult, the essential feature of the invention being the hinging of thetwo parts of the front bar to the side pieces, the

one part hinged by one end to one side piece at the extreme end of thatside piece, and to the other side piece at a point distant from its end,and the other part of the front bar hinged by one end to the one sidepiece distant from its end, and to the extreme end of the other sidepiece.

I claim- 1. The herein described awning-frame,consisting of twoside-pieces A B, adapted at their inner ends for attachment to the jambsof the opening, the other ends connected by a bar formed in two parts DE, the one part D, hinged by one end to the extreme outer end of theside B, and the other end of the said part D, hinged to the other sideA,-ata point distant from its extreme outer end, and the other part.E,hinged by one end to the side B, at apoint distant from its extremeouter end, and hinged by its other end to the extreme outer end of theside A, the pointsof connection for the two parts-with the respectivesides being equidistant, substantially as described.

2. An awning-frame.consisting of two sides A B, adapted at their innerends for attachment to the jambs of the opening, their outer ends curvedtoward each other, combined with a connecting bar at their outer ends,the said bar constructed in two parts D E, the said part D, curved atone end and hinged by that curved end to the side piece A, at a pointdistant from the extreme end of the said side piece, A, and hinged byits other end to the extreme end of the other side piece B, and theother part E curved at one end and hinged by that curved end to the sideB, at a point distant from the extreme end of the said side piece B, andby its other end hinged to the extreme end of the other side piece A,the points of connection of the said two parts with the said twoside-pieces being equidistant, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

HENRY J. KELLOGG.

Witnesses:

FRED O. EARLE, LILLIAN D. KELSEY.

